eso-flames-fposs: new port

[JohnPritchard]

Description

New Portfile eso-flames-fposs
FPOSS is the Observation preparation Software for the FLAMES instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very large telescope.

Type(s)

• bugfix
• enhancement
• security fix

Tested on

macOS 15.3.1 24D70 arm64
Xcode 16.2 16C5032a

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[JohnPritchard]

A little additional information via references.

You can find out about the European Southern Observatory here, the Very Large Telescope here, the instrument FLAMES here and the FPOSS software here.

[JohnPritchard]

@ryandesign , via email:

On 5/3/2025 20:18, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:

On Mar 5, 2025, at 02:38, John Pritchard wrote:
I submitted a pull request for a first new port (eso-flames-fpos, see #27711 <https:// github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27711>) two weeks ago, but so far nothing has happened. Is there something I need to do to get things moving?

Sorry, I haven't been following the pull requests lately and didn't see it.
Looking at it now, I have several suggestions for changes, which I will try to write up in the PR later today.

In the meantime, let me add, as discussed with the MacPorts Management Team, in particular with jmroot, this is a first package in what will be a series of packages for European Southern Observatory [ESO] software. Ultimately upto ~200 individual packages, some which rely on a "legacy" software stack (tcl/tk-8.4), and others which have a conflicts with some existing packages. Hence the desire to keep all these packages "isolated" in /opt/local/libexec/eso. This particular package doesn't really need this, but I think it will be best/easiest to manage in the long term to be consistent for all the ESO packages.

This may help explain some of the choices in the Portfile that you were perhaps going to suggest to change.

Of course, I am happy to discuss all this in more detail.

[JohnPritchard]

Ok, good, I see that the minor change I just made, to modify the "prefix" install dir from:
${prefix}/libexec/eso-flames-fposs
to
${prefix}/libexec/eso
is noted here in this ticket. Cool.